1977 All-Ireland Football Championship final | |
Event: | 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship |
Team1: | Dublin |
Team1score: | 5-12 (27) |
Team2: | Armagh |
Team2score: | 3-06 (15) |
Date: | 25 September 1977 |
Stadium: | Croke Park |
City: | Dublin |
Referee: | John Moloney (Tipperary) |
Attendance: | 66,542 |
Previous: | 1976 |
Next: | 1978 |
The 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the ninetieth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The game was contested by Armagh and Dublin. Dublin retained the Sam Maguire Cup.
This was Armagh's second ever All-Ireland final. Their previous appearance was in 1953. Dublin had appeared in the previous three finals, winning two of those (1974 and 1976).
Jimmy Smyth captained Armagh.[1]
Jimmy Keaveney scored 2–6, which was the amount Dublin won by. This final's eight goals is joint most scored in a final, a record shared with the 1948 match.[2]
Joe Kernan scored two of Armagh's goals.[3]
An early goal by Keaveney and Dublin led by 3–6 to 1–3 at half-time and by 4–8 to 1–3 at one point in the second half before the two Kernan goals; in 2022, Martin Breheny listed it among "five of the worst" All-Ireland SFC finals since 1972.[4]
Armagh would not return to an All-Ireland football decider until 2002.